Gaolhouse

KING'S LYNN

TF6119NE SATURDAY MARKET PLACE 610-1/9/198 (North side) 01/12/51 Gaolhouse (Formerly Listed as: SATURDAY MARKET PLACE Courthouse)

GV II*

Courthouse and prison, now offices and exhibition centre. 1784 by William Tuck. Gault brick with ashlar dressings. Plain tiled roof. 3 storeys in 5 bays. Rusticated quoins and string courses between each floor. Central rusticated field rising into first floor to terminate in an open pediment: arched doorway to ground floor below a recessed panel containing iron shackles and chains. Under pediment is a barred lunette. This grille pattern repeated in fanlight of the panelled door. Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Low parapet with a stone achievement bearing a sundial arm. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks. INTERIOR. Prison yard to rear entered through an iron-clad lattice door with original fittings. Rectangular yard enclosed by high walls of surrounding buildings now contains brick cell block of 1937. Within west and north walls of court are four C18 cells. Round-headed brick openings contain iron-clad timber doors flanked by shuttered iron lattice grilles. 3 western cells have groin-vaulted interiors, northern one has flat brick ceiling.

Listing NGR: TF6172919860